In today's edition of our free #MonumentMonday newsletter, we take a trip to visit an enigmatically decorated stone in County Roscommon. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Roscommon #Archaeology 🏺

Chûn Quoit photographed by @matthewmshaw.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday

so you see, my problem is I want to write this current book, and then another book, and then maybe one more, and I guess another wouldn't hurt, well I suppose I probably have time for another (I don't), and we're here already so why not one mo—

This may be the (ye) Royal Blockhouse as seen here collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commo...

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Duke Riley. www.instagram.com/p/C18GfRJspE...

#Museum30 The Fenimore's collections page is down right now, so I've borrowed a mid #18thc powder horn from the Met. Many F&I War powder horns are carved with names, imagery, and other info; this one has a map of the Mohawk and Hudson rivers. 🗃️ www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

This research gets called "AI" now because that's the latest buzzword. 5 years ago it would've been called "machine learning" (the term the researchers themselves use, although the magazine writer calls it AI). In the oughts it would've been called "big data." Before that, "time-series forecasting."

The article doesn't say it, but this cool solar forecasting software uses no large language models, the thing people usually think of when they hear "AI." It uses a fairly simple convolutional neural network that's readily trained on a laptop. No data centers or LLMs involved. Research paper here:

As always, today is a great day to support artists, writers, creators of all sorts. If you have the means, buy a book, sign up for someone's Patreon, commission an art piece. It's also a lovely day to leave a nice comment, post a short review, spread the word about someone's work. Everything helps.

STOP IT, BONNIE! She thinks that 2:30 is dinnertime on the weekend and makes a huge pest of herself until I finally give her food (at 4:30, her actual dinnertime).

#Museum30 This ca. 1806 needlework picture imagines Palemon and Lavinia, the rural lovers of a 1720s poem by James Johnson based on the story of Ruth, as contemporaries of the artist, Sophia Burpee (1788-1814). 🗃️ collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/496/...

Annie Parker #stitch ed this sampler (now on show in our #CM150 exhibition) using her own hair as thread and gave it to the Rev John Horsley, chaplain to Clerkenwell Prison. In 1884 he gave it to our collection - Parker herself died the following year of TB aged only 35. #Museum30 #womensart

A lovely piece from our collection for today’s #Museum30 theme of Stitch – a ‘Friendship Cloth’, owned and used by the donor’s grandmother, Sylvia Ashbridge of Grove Park, Wanstead, who had friends visiting for tea sign and embroider (or embroidered herself) their names from around the year 1870. 🪡

Lady's work-bag or reticule. Late 1700's or early 1800's, the embroidery is a fine chain stitch resembling tambour work - a popular form of needlework in the eighteenth century. Reticule 64.54.2 #museum30 #Stitch #novascotia

This beautiful seal bag, embroidered with the Royal Arms of England, was made in 1280 to protect the wax seal attached to a charter from the reign of Edward I. It's a fine example of 'opus anglicanum' - highly-prized English embroideries with gold and silver thread. #Museum30 #Stitch

The 30 Rock episode with “how do you do, fellow kids?” is closer to the release of Windows 98 than it is to today.

The only people I'm truly parasocial about are comedians I know from Dropout. I'm watching Abbott Elementary and Kimia Behpoornia turns up? omg hiiiiiiiiiiii Kimia!

It takes longer to spin a three-ply, but the yarn looks so much nicer.

#Museum30 This small box was painted by Ann Butler (1813-1887), a Greene County artist who decorated the tin items her father produced before her marriage. 🗃️ collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/2119...

It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters

Mistress Young's Edinburgh macaroons c. 1640, 'beat 4 or 5 eggis the wheits of them with a tuig till it be all turned to fome', full recipe in ALT text

Ep 245 - Duet (feat Dr Eleanor Chan) is available now

There's a Nahvalur Nautilus in a rather pleasing color for way cheap endlesspens.com/products/nah...

THIS IS SO GOOD

It's #TrusteesWeek, a celebration of charity trustees' work. We'd like to thank the committee of volunteers elected from members of the Orkney Natural History Society Museum, who've managed and maintained Stromness Museum since 1837 to the present day. 📷: Rev Dr Charles Clouston, Mark Summers.

Here's the Doom painting on the north wall of its north chapel. I photographed another one in Wycliffe's church at Lutterworth a few years ago.

first teaser for The Testament of Ann Lee great movie

We get some very weird Stuff in Boxes donated to us. Some things appear from where they were forgotten inside something else. All of these boxes still have the original contents inside them... #Museum30 #Boxes Day 7

What a fabulously curated and presented site this is. Clean & clear to navigate, lots of fascinating data & artifacts. And to hear newly recorded political songs from the era! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 @philipwblood.bsky.social ecppec.ncl.ac.uk

Enter the Plantagenets - The Treaty of Wallingford, November 6, 1153 thefreelancehistorywriter.com/2017/06/09/e...

As the person who wrote the original takedown of Tartaria some five years ago (www.reddit.com/r/badhistory...), what has always amused me is just how *flexible* the Tartaria conspiracy is, bringing together tendentious readings of Early Modern texts + maps with early 20thC photography.

Swerving for #Museum30 6 (clay) with our bronze bust of Henry Clay. We have a large collection of plaster busts of significant 18th-19th century figures made by J. H. I. Browere in the 1820s, and bronze versions done in the 1940s. collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/2036... 🗃️

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Conference on "Early Modern Asexualities," in person at Victoria College at the University of Toronto (and streamed online), January 5-7, 2026. Get previews of chapters in the collection edited by myself, @catherineclifford.bsky.social, and @omaraphd.bsky.social. 💜🤍🌪️🖤 1/

During our summer exhibition 'Threads: Clothing, Memory and Identity', we ran a fun paper doll activity. It was a huge hit! As a thank you for all the creativity our younger visitors shared, we took the opportunity on the final day of the exhibition to picture them alongside their inspirations! 👗✨

The number of authors who made their debut and then immediately burned out and vanished from the industry, buried by the requirements of mid-list trad publishing, can be counted in the long-abandoned social media accounts that went silent within a few months of their delighted launches

The paperback of Medieval Twitter has landed omfg Not quite a stocking stuffer price, but much much more affordable than before, thankfully www.arc-humanities.org/978180270265... #MedievalSky 🗃️ @archumanities.bsky.social

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

Sharon Owens wins, makes history as Syracuse’s first Black mayor

#Museum30 - share - Well, we're sharing a lot of art, artifacts, and photography on the Fenimore Art Museum/Fenimore Farm collections website! And I'm really excited for when we can share more post-database migration. collections.fenimoreart.org

The Grand Egyptian Museum. Oh wow. "Regarded as the world’s largest archaeological facility for a single civilisation, the museum is located 2km (1.2 miles) from the pyramids of Giza and 8km (5 miles) from the capital, Cairo."

Meet the Author: Ophelia Field - The Favourite Wednesday 3 December, 7pm Visit Queer Britain Museum to meet author Ophelia Field, interviewed by Lisa Power, as they explore the history behind the award-winning film. Book online: link.outsavvy.com/xba5kvw1

I'm super stressed right now so here's a recent favourite landscape from a few months ago again - Dunvegan in Alberta, Canada. This aerial embroidery took forever but was worth it 💚 the higher up perspective is more intricate and slower to sew I've found, more fiddly! #art

#Museum30 day four. One of my favorite sketch collections at the Fenimore is F.O.C. Darley's prep for illustrating a full set of James Fenimore Cooper's works in the 1850s. This scene is from The Red Rover, a sea novel adapted numerous times for the stage. collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/2121...

For day three of #Museum30 (prompt: eyes), this dignified portrait of Mrs. G. Brightman by William Matthew Prior. She looks at the viewer with a solemn expression -- but her animated eyes seem to be smiling, to me. collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/208/...

Hello! 👋 Day 1 of #Museum30 is #Introduction… So, if you don't already know us, we're Royston Museum, a small local history museum in North Hertfordshire that celebrates and shares the history of our town and the local area. Expect interesting facts, occasional silliness, typos and biscuits.

🏛️ Strange idea: some people actually enjoy being made to feel ignorant about art & culture 🙃 'Performance artist’s aggressive art historian shouts at visitors and insults curators – his tours are sold out.' 🗃️ #arthistory #museum @philipoltermann.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

I know a lot of people are already spreading this info, but hoping to spread it a little further: donating to a food bank, food pantry, or food distribution mutual aid group is really important right now, as TFG and the fucking GOP are shutting down snap benefits on November 1. I'll link to a few

Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street

[marx voice] the signals that you use to signal your excellence within the group are often precisely the signals that out-groups will process negatively